Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Chainguard is a trusted source for open source software, helping organizations build faster and securely. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to contribute to building the secure software supply chain and the Athena system, focusing on transitioning from prototype to production while managing core components and systems.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain core components of the clearing house in Go on GCP including customer onboarding flows, entitlement logic, and data ingestion pipelines
- Take on ownership of ambiguous problems and specific features or subsystems, driving them from design through production with appropriate testing and observability
- Work closely with staff and principal engineers to implement architectural patterns that scale
- Write backend systems that handle unstructured data inputs from enterprise customers and produce structured, validated outputs
- Participate in on-call rotation and contribute to incident response and postmortems
- Become a go-to engineer for one or more core subsystems, leading multi-engineer efforts over a multi-month horizon
- Review code, give direct feedback, and raise the team's engineering bar
- Contribute infrastructure-as-code and operational tooling using Terraform and GCP-native tooling
Skills
- Solid backend engineering foundation you've shipped and maintained production systems
- Strong Go engineering skills; GCP and Terraform experience
- You can navigate unstructured data problems (parsing, validating, deduplicating) with a methodical, analytical approach
- Experience working in a team that prioritizes operational excellence: monitoring, alerting, graceful degradation
- Able to scope and drive features independently with minimal oversight
- Experience with customer-facing APIs or workflow systems is a plus
- Security or infrastructure domain knowledge
Benefits
- Flexible & Remote-First Culture: Work remotely with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs.
- Our Approach to Equity: Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options (yes, you read that correctly: 10 years!).
- 100% Covered Health Insurance: We cover 100% of your health, vision and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents. Nothing comes out of your paycheck.
- ∞ Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need – to do our best work, we need to recharge and reset.
- 18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: We offer 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, with the option to use it all at once or throughout your child's first year.
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